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Another Look At The Latest Nouveau Gallium3D Driver

01-21-2011, 02:40 AM

Phoronix: Another Look At The Latest Nouveau Gallium3D Driver

Earlier this month I reported on good and bad news for the Nouveau Gallium3D driver with the good news being that for the hardware that played well with this reverse-engineered open-source driver, the OpenGL performance was not too bad in most instances compared to NVIDIA's official proprietary driver. There still is quite a difference in performance between the two NVIDIA Linux drivers, but it is a usable experience in a number of cases and is not too bad for Nouveau being a community-driven driver. However, the bad news was that non-GeForce 8 hardware had regressed to being non-functioning. Since that article, however, using code that is some more recent I have the GeForce 9 and GeForce 200 acceleration working again. The current code though leaves a lot to be desired.

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OK, these results are far from impressive but I still believe they are good.
Kudo's to the developers, they get no information from Nvidia. AMD is helping the Open-sourcedriver developers. Normal that Nouveau has a hard time to keep up with development.

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If it's good enough to run Compiz, it's acceptable. You can install your OS, use it, and if you want to play commercial games or do serious graphics work, you can sacrifice ease of use for performance by installing the blob. Good enough, for now. Obviously, if you have the chance to buy AMD, buy AMD.

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If it's good enough to run Compiz, it's acceptable. You can install your OS, use it, and if you want to play commercial games or do serious graphics work, you can sacrifice ease of use for performance by installing the blob. Good enough, for now. Obviously, if you have the chance to buy AMD, buy AMD.